Africa Great Lakes Democracy Watch

Welcome toAfrica Great Lakes Democracy Watch Blog.Our objective is to promote the institutions of democracy,social justice,Human Rights,Peace, Freedom ofExpression, and Respect to humanity in Rwanda,Uganda,DR Congo, Burundi,Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya,Ethiopia, and Somalia. We strongly believe that Africa will develop if only our presidents stop being rulers of men and become leaders of citizens. We support Breaking the Silence Campaign for DR Congo since we believe the democracy in Rwanda means peace inDRC. Follow this link to learn more about the origin of the war in both Rwanda and DR Congo:http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/gsdl/cgi-bin/library

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

RWANDA-US:The US government is willing to go all the way down to the gutter to protect its closest African ally Rwanda.

We
have a serious problem here. The US government is willing to go all the
way down to the gutter to protect its closest African ally Rwanda.

Their reasoning is beyond comprehension. This is the same thing they
said in 1997 when Roberto Garreton of Chile documented the massacre of
refugees in Congo by the Rwandan military, the same excuse they said
during the two Congo wars, the same thing they said when Rwanda was
caught supporting Laurent Nkunda in 2008, the same thing they said when
the UN Mapping report was blocked in 2010 by the US saying that possibly
genocide may have occured in Congo, and it is still the same thing they
are saying now.

For 16 years... they have said this... and now
over 6 million people have died in the Congo. Until when are we going
to keep doing this?

"But Rice pushed back, reasoning that any
move to sanction Rwandan leader Paul Kagame would backfire, and it would
be better to work with him to find a long-term solution to the region's
troubles than punish him. "Gerard, it's eastern Congo. If it were not
the M23 killing people it would be some other armed groups," she said,
according to one of three U.N.-based sources who detailed the exchange.
The U.S. mission declined to comment on the meeting, which was
confidential."